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Rugged, cleft-chinned Bishop Wand was a brilliant student at Oxford (he took a first-class in theology) and a chaplain in World War I. For eleven years, he was a tutor at Sarum Theological College; then he was recalled to Oxford as dean of Oriel College. In 1934, he became Archbishop of Brisbane...
Wherever he went, me Bishop made friends. He learned to preach to Papuan natives in their own tongue. Australians liked his lack of "side." He carefully avoids any hint of the stuffed shirt: "When I was the dean of [Oriel] my colleagues used to write to me as 'the not-very-reverend Dean...
...small side-room of the great building was a great oriel window, with a deep seat from which one looked out upon treetops, lawns and towers. Many of those who waited, to solace themselves took down some volume of an antick poet or tragedian, and reposed themselves on the window-seat or upon the luxurious cushioned benches. Some were seen to become immediately absorbed in the skillfully told fable before them, others to gaze abstractedly out of doors at the dark and mysterious evergreens. Still others occupied themselves in scrutinizing the many beautiful female passengers, who continually entered and went...
...Author-Rare for a first or 21st novel are Author Hutchinson's simple clarity, obvious sincerity, tenderness and understanding. Previous to this well-told tale of two gritty women he contributed to Oxford's his (he went to Oriel), the Manchester Guardian, Punch, the English Review. No missionary, he is 25, married, has a daughter, works in the advertising department of a London wholesale grocery...
...several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for go minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after, matriculation. Alarmed, the practical Provost of Oriel demanded how the University, in that case, could make good the loss in examination fees. Most of the Congregation, however, agreed with Dr. Kenneth Escott Kirk that the present examination was "unworthy of the sanctity of the subject and of the University." They voted, 140 to 99, to abolish Divvers...